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Sedged

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• Sedge-family

  noun 1. the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.

• Sedge fly

  noun 1. an angler’s name for various caddis flies, notably the grey sedge, the murragh, and the cinnamon sedge

• Sedge warbler

  noun 1. a European songbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc)

• Sedge-wren

  noun 1. a small wren, Cistothorus platensis, of the Americas, inhabiting wet, sedgy meadows.

• Sedgwick

  noun 1. Ellery, 1872–1960, U.S. journalist and editor. noun 1. Adam. 1785–1873, English geologist; played a major role in establishing parts of the geological time scale, esp the Cambrian and Devonian periods

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